Source of the lyrics: the CD-booklet,
except for two small printing errors: the 3rd line of the first stanza had
"Io sono ..." instead of "Io sogno ...", and the very last line had a space
too much in "all' anima".

Something on the background and lyrics of the song

"My next song was originally an instrumental written by the composer Ennio
Morricone for the film 'The Mission'. About three years ago I wrote Mr.
Morricone, asking if he would give ne permission to turn this particular
piece into a song. He flatly refused. So every two months I would send yet
another begging letter, until I think he got so sich of me, he finally
relented. And I am really glad that he did, because I think it works
beautifully as a song."

I have not seen "The Mission" myself, but Lianne Lopes wrote me
that the words fit very well with the movie, Lianne writes, "although it's a
broad hope even for life today. The Mission was about a Jesuit priest
(played by Jeremy Irons) in the wilds of Brazil in the 18th century. (...)
It's a sad movie about greed and politics destroying people's lives, namely
those of the jungle natives and the Jesuit missionaries."

Carlos Pineda added to this that the film is about
Portoguese people who went to Brazil to teach the gospel and at the end of
the film some people kill them because of their religious ideas.
"It is a real sad picture," Carlos wrote, "and Nella Fantasia is a
perfect song with perfect lyrics for the film."

Let us hope that the dream the song is about will come true in the new
Millennium!

The lyrics were then, apparently, written by Ferraù -- I do not know
who that is. The name of Ferraù is given in the CD-booklet of
Eden. On
this
Trivia page it says, however, that the song was "performed by Sarah with
lyrics written by herself in Italian", as Pristine Ong pointed out to me.
Is that correct? Perhaps Sarah wrote the lyrics in English and this
Ferraù translated them into Italian?

2) the media info for the song on
Amici Forever's Defined and Il Divo's self-titled album,
says that the composers are Chiara Ferrau and of course Ennio Morricone.

So who is who here? And who did write what?

[Many thanks to Pristine Ong informing me about this confusion.]

Translation into English

A translation of the Italian into English was sent to me by Mike Smith;
thanks also to William Beaudin for some corrections and Austin Luton.
In the first line of the first stanza the Italian word "giusto" means
"just", "honest", "fair". As Arly Helm pointed out, using "fair" can
be confusing as it usually means "comely" or "good to look upon". And
"honesty" is used in the next line. So it is best to use here
"a ust world", even though that does not read too well.
The word "my" in the first line of each stanza is from me:
I think it reads better that way.

In my fantasy

In my fantasy I see a just world,
Where everyone lives in peace and honesty.
I dream of souls that are always free
Like the clouds that float
Full of humanity in the depths of the soul.

In my fantasy I see a bright world
Where each night there is less darkness.
I dream of spirits that are always free,
Like the clouds that float

In my fantasy exists a warm wind,
That blows into the city, like a friend.
I dream of souls that are always free,
Like the clouds that float
Full of humanity in the depths of the soul.